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First decent harvest this year: purple sprouting broccoli 🥦

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I haven’t posted for a while, but thought I’d share a particularly nice harvest from the veg garden this week 😍

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Some of June’s produce

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We nipped up to the allotment at lunch to lift the onions and garlic. 🧅 🧄

The onions were over wintering (Japanese) ones, hence they are ready earlier than traditional spring down bulbs.

It’s been a great year for the alliums so far. Some of the onions were absolute crackers!

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The first of the spring harvest. Purple sprouting broccoli.

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An Osprey about to wreck havoc on fish!

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A Christmas present we couldn’t deliver due to lockdown means we have a bit of unexpected colour in the garden!

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This year we grew something a little different: Ying Yang beans.

You grow them line dwarf french beans but allow the pods to dry out and harvest the beans late in the season to dry and store.

Below is the result. I think they really do look like ying yangs!

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Summer glut starting to pick up a bit!

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TOMATOES 🍅🍅😃

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Some lovely close ups of my cacti and succulents 😍

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New research shows companion planting improves the quality and quantity of crops.